On a cost / taste / ease of use basis, the French Press is by far the best way to make coffee.

If this is all you have to worry about with your diet, I think you will be fine.

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I don't drink coffee, but my cousin and her husband drink it daily, made in a French press not filtered in a drip pot. That's why I asked, I'd never seen that health concern about coffee before and I was pretty surprised.

There is so much contradicting advice. My doctor told me to treat rice like sugar and go for wheat instead. This is also the advice many of my relatives have gotten. Now I read somewhere that wheat puts a higher digestive load on the body causing insulin resistance and rice is better.

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I think I got that wrong. I believe the comparison was not between wheat and rice, but between wheat and gluten-free grains.

I don't know for sure. However, you could be intolerant and be attributing some issues to other things, or not know why they are. My gluten intolerance only noticably affected me during running. I had severe breathing problems while running. I accidentally found it was gluten when i was eating rice for a month on vacation, and i had no breathing problem. Came back home and again the breathing issues began.

However, there may be other issues too that gluten could be causing that I will only know if I stay off gluten for a month or more. Since my family is basically wheat eating, that's not proving possible.

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a number of studies, including one from Baylor about 5 years ago, and one from Belgium, demonstrate that drinking unfiltered coffee does indeed raise cholesterol, as much as 8 percent. Cafestrol, a potent elevator of cholesterol by virtue of a gastrointestinal mechanism, is removed from coffee by paper filters (along with some of the oils, unfortunately, that add some flavor).

On a cost / taste / ease of use basis, the French Press is by far the best way to make coffee.

If this is all you have to worry about with your diet, I think you will be fine.

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This is exactly my point. I am admittedly a huge coffee snob, and alternate between brewing methods, two of which don't use a paper filter. I eat a balanced diet of fish, just about only whole grains (including brown rice), chicken, very little red meat and typically have a glass of red every night or two. My lipid levels are fantastic. The rise in cholesterol linked to the unfiltered coffee is even hugely shadowed by the effects of the caffeine from drinking that amount of coffee. Here is a quote from an article referencing a Johns Hopkins study

In 2001, Klag and his colleagues reviewed more than a dozen studies that looked at the relationship between coffee consumption and cholesterol levels. They found that drinking an average of six cups of coffee a day was associated with increased total cholesterol and LDL, the harmful type of cholesterol. Nearly all of the rise in cholesterol was linked to unfiltered coffee.

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If you drink on average six cups of coffee a day, then cholesterol is the least of your worries. Coffee's benefits far outweigh this high-dose risk.

I don't know for sure. However, you could be intolerant and be attributing some issues to other things, or not know why they are. My gluten intolerance only noticably affected me during running. I had severe breathing problems while running. I accidentally found it was gluten when i was eating rice for a month on vacation, and i had no breathing problem. Came back home and again the breathing issues began.

However, there may be other issues too that gluten could be causing that I will only know if I stay off gluten for a month or more. Since my family is basically wheat eating, that's not proving possible.